Anyone who seeks to know and learn about
the ways of God want an accurate, reliable, and truthful translation of
the Word of God.

Can we in fact TRUST the New World Translation?

What scholars have said about the New
World Translation

Scholar: Dr. Julius Mantey one
of the leading Greek scholars of the world, author if the Hellenistic Greek
Reader and co-author of A Manual Grammar of The Greek New Testament had
this to say about the New World Translation:

Note:DR. MANTEY: "Well,
as a backdrop, I was disturbed because they (Watchtower) had misquoted me
in support of their translation. " (1)

Remarks:" I have never read
any New Testament so badly translated as The Kingdom Interlinear Translation
of The Greek Scriptures.... it is a distortion
of the New Testament. The translators used what J.B. Rotherham had translated
in 1893, in modern speech, and changed the readings in scores of passages
to state what Jehovah's Witnesses believe and teach. That is a distortion
not a translation."(2)

Scholar: Dr. Metzger, professor
of New Testament language and literature at Princetown Theological Seminary
and author of The Text of The New Testament, observes.

Remarks: " The Jehovah's
Witnesses have incorporated in their translations of the New Testament several
quite erroneous rendering of the Greek."(3)

Scholar: Dr. Robert Countess wrote
his dissertation for his Ph.D. in Greek in the New World Translation. He
concluded the the Jehovah's Witness's translation:

Remarks: "Has been largely
unsuccessful in keeping doctrinal considerations from influencing the actual
translation.It must be viewed as a radically biased piece of work. At some
points it is actually dishonest. Ant others it is neither modern nor scholarly.
And interwoven throughout its fabric is inconsistent application of its
own principles."(4)

Did The Translators of The New World Translators
Have Any Greek Scholars ?

"I don't know whether you're aware of it, but there is not a
single Greek scholar in the Watchtower Bible
and Tract Society. I did everything I could to find out the names of the
translating committee of the NWT, and the Watchtower wouldn't tell me a
thing." DR. MARTIN(5)

What Kind Of People Contributed to the New World
Translation ?

For years the Watchtower organization used Johannes Greber as a scholarly
source to support the New World Translation's rendering of John 1:1 calling
Jesus "a god". They referenced him as support at least 7 times
in various Watchtower publications from 1962 through 1976. On page 31 of
the April 1, 1983 Watchtower magazine, the Society said that the 1980 edition
of Greber's New Testament indicated a close rapport
with spiritism, and the Watchtower deemed it improper to make use
of that translation. If a close rapport with spiritism
makes Greber improper to use in 1983, why was it proper in 1962? A few months
later, in the February 15, 1956 Watchtower magazine, pages 110 and 111 said,
in part: "Under this impression Greber endeavors to make his translation
read very spiritualistic. ... Very plainly the spirits
in which ex-priest Greber believes helped him in his translation."(6)

(4) Robert Countess, The Jehovah's Witness New Testament:
A Critical Analysis of The New World Translation of The Christian Greek
Scriptures (Phillipsburg, N.J: Presbyterian & Reformed, 1987), pp 91,93.

(5) *These words were excerpted from the tape, "Martin
and Mantey on The New World Translation"

(6) JCW@eskimo.com,Dishonesty of
the Watchtower Society

Scripture quotations taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL
VERSION. Copyright (c) 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society.
Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House.